Welcome to Your New Neighborhood

Sustainable Communities in the Golden State

California Facilitation Intensives

Join us starting in September for an affordable two-year, eight-weekend intensive hands-on facilitation training series. See videos from Laird and alumni explaining what it includes.

Laird Schaub, Facilitation Intensive series instructor

Laird Schaub's workshop can help your community if you're willing to host us. Learn more.

Upcoming Cohousing Workshops & Classes

Is it any surprise that the country's most populous state has the greatest number of cohousing neighborhoods? We're everywhere from the heart of downtown Oakland (12 minutes from downtown San Francisco) to 49ers country Nevada City to an urban EcoVillage near the heart of L.A. to the subtle hidden shores of Arcata. We're up and down the Central Valley, scattered around Wine Country, and stretching down the Central Coast, featuring the first U.S. new build and the first organically-created community, the most urban, the first senior cohousing neighborhood, and the most innovative in affordability.

California Cohousing neighborhoods and professionals are planning some exciting events this year: site visits,bus tours, walking tours, and carpool tours, open houses, orientations, booths at festivals, and more. This site is the place to learn about all these.

Join us in an existing community or creating a new one where you know your neighbors but have privacy, your own kitchen but meals together a few times a week, a condo where the common house provides connections and you are part of the team that makes it happen. Join us in our quiet revolution, planting the seeds of Ecovillages, building a better society, one neighborhood at a time.

Regions

From the coast to the mountains, from sunny San Diego to cool-as-a-cucumber Arcata, Learn about what's happening in cohousing in California's many different regions.

Cohousing Neighborhoods In the Golden State

Cohousing Neighborhoods In the Golden State

There are dozens of cohousing neighborhoods established in California, and more on the way. Visit their websites and learn more here. Or contact us for help starting your own.

Happenings in, around, and about Cohousing in California

Happenings in, around, and about Cohousing in California

Whether you're seeking community or already living in one, there's lots going on this year around the state.

Below we list all cohousing events in the state that we know of, and some outside the state that are of interest. Please let us know of ones not listed here. Some events require reservations or admission fees; check with the individual event organizer.

Some additional events near San Francisco can be found at theEast Bay Cohousing website. And activities relevant to Senior Cohousing and related endeavors are listed on the Aging In Community Bay Area MeetUp.

Openings

Openings

This is where we'll list openings in Northern California's many cohousing neighborhoods: resales, rentals, roommates, new developments, land seeking groups, and the like.

People

It's not the locations, it's not the architecture, not even the process or the values.. it's the people of Northern California Cohousing that make the movement.

Over time, we'll profile some of them here.

Brought to you by the Cohousing Coaches at Planning for Sustainable Communities.